Vacant Jobs at British American Tobacco

Your key responsibilities will include:

•  Secondary Supply Chain (SSC) and Risk & Security (R&S) Business Partnering – provide insights on financial performance, forecast vs actual variance analyses, budgeting and inventory movements/ adjustments tracking
• Financial management and review cost of goods sold relating to New Category products
• Preparation of financial reports on performance/ dashboards with commentaries on drivers.
• Custodian for business controls within the supply chain function – track SOX controls compliance/ cascade any changes for implementation and business risk reviews
• Providing commercial insights relating to future performance of the supply chain team by ensuring all budgets are tracked and performance measured.
• Manages projects and provides business support within the Supply Chain.
•  Supports the Senior Commercial Finance Manager Operations (Supply Chain) in providing input to the SSA Operations strategy development.

What are we looking for?

• Accounting / Financial qualification (CA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA)
• 4 years working experience in controlling / compliance / supply chain / manufacturing finance (preferably in an FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment)
• Strong influencing, leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Exposure to SAP/ERP systems
• Leadership skills required as well as project management experience.
•  Able to use financial information to support business diagnosis, strategy and decision making.
• Proactive tracking of financial performance with timely detection of risks and sensitivities to enable mitigating action.

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Your key responsibilities will include:

 Operational/Professional/Business

• Supply to the development and execution of the Legal & Security functional strategy.
• Supervise and interpret the legislative environment, to ensure that the business understands and meets its legal obligations.
• Leverage digital opportunities and platforms for the management, tracking and reporting of the contract life cycle and litigation.
• Maintain, update and rollout the regulatory compliance cycle plan for the Heidelberg tobacco factory.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of upstream, predominantly supplier-side regulatory issues and the regulatory framework in which the business operates and take ownership for the development of informed solutions enabling the business to respond to and deal with regulatory constraints.
• Driving the management of operations, procurement, supply chain and union, factory related employment matters.
• Ensuring efficient management of External Counsel.

Management

• Participate and supply to cross functional business projects and initiatives to assess, monitor, and anticipate potential threats to minimize legal risks and ensure achievement of business objectives.
• Supervise so that proactive legal advice and support is provided on manufacturer’s statutory obligations, labour laws, health and safety at work regulations and leaf growing marketing legislation.
• Draft, negotiate and review contractual documentation and develop as appropriate standard formats to optimise efficiencies within the legal sub-function..
• Optimally, communicate across functions and within the department to keep all collaborators advised and to find solutions for problems of mutual interest.

What are we looking for?

Experience Required

• Proven experience in a private legal practice and ideally an additional demonstrated ability in a corporate environment and competence in providing legal advice to internal stakeholders.
• Strong background in Operations, Logistics and Procurement legal counseling experience with a multi-national or similar scale business in South Africa and ideally in other African markets.
• Detailed knowledge of local substantive and procedural laws relevant to areas of responsibility e.g. commercial law, labour laws, land laws, factory/manufacturing regulations, EHS legislation, etc.
• Strong negotiation, written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to act on their own initiative, lead others and work well with peers and senior management.

Skills Required

Innovation

• Ability to apply strong strategic, analytical skills and good judgment.
• Continually optimise and build improved systems and work process to drive efficiency and reduce costs.

Leadership Skills

• Implement and achieve the strategic plans and objectives
• Powerful and effective communication to the business on the relevance and strategic business importance of the area of responsibility of this role.
• Identify new initiatives and proposals in line with the business strategy and values to ensure legal operates at the heart of the business and as effective risk managers and business partners.
• Continuously develop technical and managerial skills as identified and agreed in personal development plan.
• Build and maintain good relationships with authorities in the legal field.
• Map out internal and external partners and build those relationships to optimise effectiveness of legal actions.

Education / Qualifications / Certifications Required

• A recognized legal qualification

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WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

• Effectively manage accounts, supervising Key Account budgets, forecasts, and actuals to ensure efficient use of financial resource allocated for the key account group. Ensure timely reporting in collaboration with Finance on a Monthly, Quarterly, and yearly reporting cycle.
• To manage direct reports who will support the account management of Pick n Pay & Shoprite accounts analysis and reporting.
• To develop insight on the difference between grocery stores shopping behaviour and build a strategy to take leadership within both main store and grocery convenience outlets.
• To analyse and report upon Nielsen reporting identifying trends and define insights for account opportunities.
• Develop, implement & maintain portfolio of new & current accounts ensuring all objectives are SMART and aligned to the company, Function and department strategies and operational plan, thereby delivering against line-of-sight objectives.
• Achievement of agreed Availability, Visibility, Dialogue, Activation, market share & volume objectives, for the assigned accounts.
• Ensure all relevant BAT & account systems/ processes are identified, understood & actioned to achieve excellence in Execution
• Continuously monitor the Performance & Dynamics of the accounts within the Portfolio, through data, consumer and market analysis, to identify and exploit current and future business issues and opportunities.
• Develop strong business relationships with both trade partners and internal departments.
• Hold Account performance reviews & continuously review account contact strategy and re-align as appropriate to deliver objectives and improve business effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ensure timely communication to all relevant collaborators of any variances to plans.
• Communicate competitor and market intelligence to relevant internal team members.
• Key understanding of Supply Chain both internal and external.
• Apply BAT’s performance management process to align with line manager on progress against account/portfolio objectives and personal performance as required.
• To maintain, develop, continuously improve & support the Key Account Managers on BAU Key Account processes.
• To plan, coordinate and ensure timely & accurate pricing comms to the leadership team & Partner with Key Account to implement Projects to drive growth in volume & share.
• To Create and develop Customer’s Business Plans - starting from a clear understanding of the customer strategy- their shopper and competitive environment, lead negotiations.
• Develop, sell and evaluate with the Customer the Joint Business Plans to deliver critical metrics.
• Lead regular portfolio evaluation, implement growth initiatives and corrective actions.
• Design and execute a deployment plan for the distribution strategy to maximize cycle plan and customer potential.
• Develop long-term sales plans for customers, monitor & recommend sales activities to achieve sustainable volume, .value & profit growth implement-track- evaluate.
• Refer sales opportunities and customer feedback- to internal organization so that they can respond to changing market conditions and customer demands.
• Perform operational work related to day-to-day business (i.e., volume forecasting, customer reports, customers presentations, updates on trade and competition, budgets management etc.).
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify and answer the appropriate business solutions.
• Demonstrate Customer’s specifics knowledge for reliable input to BAT initiative planning.
• Work closely with Deployment Teams & Key Accounts to ensure effective positioning and use of In Store Furniture (ISF) to maximize visibility of our brands, for both new & existing stores.
• Implement and manage defined governance model in respect of:
• Planning & Execution (Monthly Regional Meetings & Cycle Planning Meetings)
• Committees (Market, SOP, HR)

Experience Required

• Ability to work in a challenging commercial environment in which they must balance the demands of these accounts with the commercial aims & objectives of our own business.
• Passion for learning, developing yourself and taking new challenges.
• Attitude of continuously striving for excellence to achieve superior results.
• Excellent analytical thinking and communication skills, together with ability to influence others.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurship and innovation – solution orientation.
• Ability to manage complexity and operate in complex processes.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).
• A degree, preferably in Marketing/Business Management plus 8-10 years relevant FMCG experience